Mississauga French Catholic school blocks Harvey Milk quote from posters

[SidDithers]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/12/19/mississauga_french_catholic_school_blocks_harvey_milk_quote_from_posters.html

A gay high school student feels that his Mississauga French Catholic school is trying to silence him after posters featuring a Harvey Milk quote were rejected.

The words from Milk (the openly gay San Francisco city supervisor assassinated in 1978) — “All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential” — were not allowed on posters student Christopher Karas wanted to put up for a gay-straight alliance group in November.

According to Karas, the vice-principal at École Secondaire Catholique Sainte-Famille asked that “sexual orientation” be changed to “self expression” to be inclusive of non-LGBT students.

In an email, vice-principal Vicki Marcotte, the teacher representative for the group, told Karas she wouldn’t print the posters because the Milk quote was “tendentious.” She has also said that other students leading the group disagreed with including it.

Sid

[el_bryanto]

1. Apparently this school is in Toronto

It's odd that they wanted to change the quote - you'd think at that point they'd just make him do something else. Oh well, hopefully this guy can stick it out and bring some changes.

Bryant

[SidDithers]

3. Yeah, sorry, should have included that...

Mississauga is a suburb of Toronto.

Sid

[el_bryanto]

4. no worries - I was just trying to figure it out because I thought it was in Louisiana

But I was wrong.

Bryant

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, don't want to offend the bigots, homophobes and persecutionists from having

a good old time. Rewrite history, change the words. ... damn, so many still live in the dark ages just looking for a hook to hang their hatred on.

[KurtNYC]

5. They wanted to change the quote?! That is bizarre.

Any other quotes they want to change?

"I have ice cream today..." M.L.K. Jr. (to be more inclusive of dairy farmers)

"Give peas a chance" -John Lennon

"Be the change you wish to see in others' quotes" - Gandhi

[bullwinkle428]

7. "You can fool some of the people all of the time on the Internet" - Abraham Lincoln

[KurtNYC]

9. "Give me Liberty or give me an iPad" - Patrick Henry

"Ask not what your country can do for you; Ask what your country can do for Catholic schools in Missassaugua." -JFK

[Iggo]

6. "Sexual orientation" DOES include non-LGBT students.

Fucking morons.

[SomethingFishy]

8. I had to look up "tendentious"

It means biased. So I understand why they did it. It's a biased quote... claiming that all students should be equal.

You know, sometimes you have to wonder what the fuck is wrong with people...

[rug]

10. There are bigots of all kinds in Canada.